See, you shouldn't be dealing with actual leftisist anyway. The post-modernists literally don't believe in dialog so there's no point talking to them. Just give them a light smack, as you would a dog trying to steal your food, and walk away.
The "I'm not X but..." tactic is for dealing with normies who have been told by their TVs that if you do Y then you must automatically do X. To show them a real life example of a person holding one view and not the other, with logical consistency, starts the process of getting them to question their sources.
The only other time I use it is dealing with people on here who say dumb shit like "You must say you're an anti-vaxxer if you won't get the clot shot". All they're trying to do is use the slippery slope to drag people into their delusions.
The "I'm not X but..." tactic is for dealing with normies who have been told by their TVs that if you do Y then you must automatically do X.
And it doesn't work any more. The wheels fell off the "I'm not X but..." train nearly TEN YEARS AGO and non-leftist millennials are still going around using it like it's still 1999.
Definitely a stupid tactic if you've ever dealt with leftists. They've already decided you're a racist when you utter "I'm not a racist but..."
It's a boomer meme at this point.
See, you shouldn't be dealing with actual leftisist anyway. The post-modernists literally don't believe in dialog so there's no point talking to them. Just give them a light smack, as you would a dog trying to steal your food, and walk away.
The "I'm not X but..." tactic is for dealing with normies who have been told by their TVs that if you do Y then you must automatically do X. To show them a real life example of a person holding one view and not the other, with logical consistency, starts the process of getting them to question their sources.
The only other time I use it is dealing with people on here who say dumb shit like "You must say you're an anti-vaxxer if you won't get the clot shot". All they're trying to do is use the slippery slope to drag people into their delusions.
And it doesn't work any more. The wheels fell off the "I'm not X but..." train nearly TEN YEARS AGO and non-leftist millennials are still going around using it like it's still 1999.